About the Authors

Siti Fatimah Samsury

Contributed equally to this work with: Siti Fatimah Samsury, Mohd Ismail Ibrahim

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Besut District Health Office, Jerteh, Terengganu, Malaysia.

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia

Mohd Nazri Shafei

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

drnazri@usm.my

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia

Mohd Ismail Ibrahim

Contributed equally to this work with: Siti Fatimah Samsury, Mohd Ismail Ibrahim

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia

Wan Nor Arifin Wan Mansor

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Unit of Biostatistics and Research Methodology, School of Medical Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia

Noriah Mahmud

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Environmental Health Unit, Terengganu State Health Department, Wisma Persekutuan, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.